the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live—undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands.

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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one’s self over poetry is an honour.

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-“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

-One may lose one’s way.

-“All ways end at the same point, my dear Gladys.”